Hey all you brothers of the leaf out there.
I've decided to recently quit. Back in February, I got hold of this medium potency herb that the guy called "Fire". Started to smoke it, and noticed a bit of strange, slightly limited vision during the next day. No biggie. No change in smoking patterns, just enough to get blazed before bedtime to fight the insomnia.
Kept smoking, and 2 weeks later... BAM. I was in traffic, and I got MEGA dizzy all of a sudden without warning. Thought I was genuinely going to lose consciousness. Tingling lips, tingling neck, hands and feet late in the afternoon. Made my neck muscles a bit sore, and legs feel real heavy and weak. I'd been smoking herb then pretty much only nightly just before bed, just whatever I could get, be it hydro or schwag.
Nothing for about 4 or 5 days, and then BAM, more dizzy spells. Not constant dizziness, but just waves, anxiety like I was going to soon lose control or really flip out and be incoherent. Terror. "My God - the doctors don't know what's wrong with me! I'm going to get sicker and pass out or go insane or get the shakes or something!" - (my brain.)
Well - anxiety, dizziness (but no room spinning or vomitting, just nausea) - look it up on the Net, labyrinthitis? Could it be? Go to the hospital, feeling like absolute c**p for hours at a time, and the doc says it's a virus that could hang around a while. Labyrinthitis is viral, right? Could be.
Bloodwork came back normal, blood pressure is normal, ears look normal.
So throughout the next 4 weeks or so, the dizzy spells decrease in intensity a little and duration a lot. They lasted only 15 seconds or so, and eventually went down to not being any big deal.
A month and change later, I'm feeling pretty close to normal. Perhaps my labyrinthitis (suspected) was gone? So I took a hit off my pipe, just one small one, in case I got sick. HOH-HOH. Boy, did I get sick again, dizzy and faint-feeling just like before, same magnitude. I seem to have gone back to square one at that point, for the dizzy spells kicked up again.
Now, it's almost 3 weeks and change later since that one small dizzying hit. I get dizzy spells for about a few minutes at a time now, and anxiety has been afflicting me too for the duration. This past weekend, though, I spent incredibly weak, nauseous, and able to eat about 1/10 of what I usually do, which ain't much.
I seem to have good days followed by bad ones bearing a few attacks that last varying times. Fat cells turning over releasing the THC of the new strain that made me dizzy?
Is it a reaction to the new strain, or weed reacting with labyrinthitis, or labyrinthitis... what the hell's goin on?
I loved weed before. It always made me just melt into the couch and have a great time, and then float off to sleep.
I quit the first time on March 20th after smoking nightly for about 2 years straight. Took the puff on April 25 or 26. Today's May 20th.
My main theory as to what happened is that the good weed had accumulated in my body over the 2 years. Then the new strain got introduced for a month or so, long enough to build up to levels to make me ill. Perhaps the dizziness is fat cells turning over releasing the month's worth of backlog of new THC until I detox.
I'm really afraid I'll never get better, man. This stuff is hell. Not as bad as Tramadol withdrawals, though. Damned kidney stones.
EDIT (5/22/08): I forgot to mention I've been taking Celexa (citalopram HBr) for depression, 40 mg a day since 2001 for depression.
I've decided to recently quit. Back in February, I got hold of this medium potency herb that the guy called "Fire". Started to smoke it, and noticed a bit of strange, slightly limited vision during the next day. No biggie. No change in smoking patterns, just enough to get blazed before bedtime to fight the insomnia.
Kept smoking, and 2 weeks later... BAM. I was in traffic, and I got MEGA dizzy all of a sudden without warning. Thought I was genuinely going to lose consciousness. Tingling lips, tingling neck, hands and feet late in the afternoon. Made my neck muscles a bit sore, and legs feel real heavy and weak. I'd been smoking herb then pretty much only nightly just before bed, just whatever I could get, be it hydro or schwag.
Nothing for about 4 or 5 days, and then BAM, more dizzy spells. Not constant dizziness, but just waves, anxiety like I was going to soon lose control or really flip out and be incoherent. Terror. "My God - the doctors don't know what's wrong with me! I'm going to get sicker and pass out or go insane or get the shakes or something!" - (my brain.)
Well - anxiety, dizziness (but no room spinning or vomitting, just nausea) - look it up on the Net, labyrinthitis? Could it be? Go to the hospital, feeling like absolute c**p for hours at a time, and the doc says it's a virus that could hang around a while. Labyrinthitis is viral, right? Could be.
Bloodwork came back normal, blood pressure is normal, ears look normal.
So throughout the next 4 weeks or so, the dizzy spells decrease in intensity a little and duration a lot. They lasted only 15 seconds or so, and eventually went down to not being any big deal.
A month and change later, I'm feeling pretty close to normal. Perhaps my labyrinthitis (suspected) was gone? So I took a hit off my pipe, just one small one, in case I got sick. HOH-HOH. Boy, did I get sick again, dizzy and faint-feeling just like before, same magnitude. I seem to have gone back to square one at that point, for the dizzy spells kicked up again.
Now, it's almost 3 weeks and change later since that one small dizzying hit. I get dizzy spells for about a few minutes at a time now, and anxiety has been afflicting me too for the duration. This past weekend, though, I spent incredibly weak, nauseous, and able to eat about 1/10 of what I usually do, which ain't much.
I seem to have good days followed by bad ones bearing a few attacks that last varying times. Fat cells turning over releasing the THC of the new strain that made me dizzy?
Is it a reaction to the new strain, or weed reacting with labyrinthitis, or labyrinthitis... what the hell's goin on?
I loved weed before. It always made me just melt into the couch and have a great time, and then float off to sleep.
I quit the first time on March 20th after smoking nightly for about 2 years straight. Took the puff on April 25 or 26. Today's May 20th.
My main theory as to what happened is that the good weed had accumulated in my body over the 2 years. Then the new strain got introduced for a month or so, long enough to build up to levels to make me ill. Perhaps the dizziness is fat cells turning over releasing the month's worth of backlog of new THC until I detox.
I'm really afraid I'll never get better, man. This stuff is hell. Not as bad as Tramadol withdrawals, though. Damned kidney stones.
EDIT (5/22/08): I forgot to mention I've been taking Celexa (citalopram HBr) for depression, 40 mg a day since 2001 for depression.
Hi Samolyet(airoplain), same thing was with me, when I first stoped smoking I got all the withdrawal symptoms as you, dizziness, anxiety, loss of appitate, however I did not think it was because of weed because I never heard such thing in my life, so of coarse I went to the doc and had a fool check up, the doc said it seems like its not physical, so 2 weeks later I smoked again and it didnt make me feel good, however, the next day being sober was good, i started smoking and feeling as i used to feel before I stoped smoking, so thats when I realized that weed had something to do with it, so for that reason I decided to go throgh the withdrawals and hope for the best. It took me a while to get back to normal, I felt weird for about 4-5 month, it kept on getting easier with time though. I did not miss weed and do not now eather, I just feel like I would use it to escape from everyday problems, instead of taking them in as a sign and learning from them, the deeper we put our stress and problems the harder it will be to work with them. What helped me was exercise, vitamins, thinking different, being positive and taking resposibility about my life in my own hands, by loving myself and others, I am thankfull that the universe gave me that obsticle in my life, so that I can learn from it and become a better person. Life is beutifull if you make it to be, good luck, you will be ok, just think things through!